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Your review of Jesuit Father John L. Thomas' book [March 26] deserves close scrutiny and high praise by Roman Catholics outside the U.S. It certainly offers a great challenge, inducing us to pray hard for them...
...think of a time when most of the human race had no contact whatsoever with the Church's teaching as a genuinely 'Catholic' age," said Jesuit Ong, "is not only parochial, but definitely scandalous. It suggests that Christ came to save not the human race but one's own family." Only Europe was Catholic in the so-called Age of Faith; today there are Catholics everywhere in the world...
...complex of underground corridors, chambers and cubicles covers an area of 157 ft. by 89 ft. and has at least three levels. Its walls are decorated with an extraordinary number of pictures. "Nothing like this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted...
...cost of the gains has been totted up in an important book published this week. The American Catholic Family (Prentice-Hall; $7.65), the result of five years' work by Jesuit Father John L. Thomas, 45, assistant director of the Institute for Social Order at St. Louis Uni versity, is the first detailed study of Catholic family life...
...every seven Roman Catholic missionaries throughout the world is a Jesuit. They labor in 71 missions, 6,640 mission stations, 4,000 schools, 350 hospitals and 16 leprosaria. Second to missions the Jesuits emphasize education, then retreats; there are 174 Jesuit retreat houses (32 in the U.S.). It is the largest order in the church today. Today there are more than 32,000 Jesuits-16,521 priests, 10,741 scholastics (students in the 13-year course leading to the priesthood) and 5,637 lay brothers-and they work in 74 nations...